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  • Antiwar Protesters Arrested Near Bush Ranch
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Ordinance Limits Parking, Camping
    By Rosalind S. Helderman
    CRAWFORD, Tex., - About a dozen antiwar protesters, including Daniel Ellsberg and the sister of Cindy Sheehan, were arrested Wednesday morning while camping on a roadside near President Bush’s ranch in violation of a new county ordinance.
    The group returned this week as Bush arrived at his Texas home to celebrate Thanksgiving with his family. They came in hopes of reigniting the international attention they attracted in August, (…)

  • Hillary, You’re Not Listening
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Jeff Cohen "Part of my job is being a good listener," Hillary Clinton wrote, in the first line of her letter received today. As a New Yorker, I’m represented by Hillary in the U.S. Senate. Along with her two-page fundraising letter, I received a four-page "2005 Critical National Issues Survey."
    But something was missing — something Hillary obviously doesn’t want to hear about: IRAQ. Nowhere in the letter or the questionnaire was that four-letter word.
    Hillary’s first question asked (…)

  • Cheney’s Trouble with Truth
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Robert Scheer
    You’ve got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies about matters of state.
    In speeches Friday and Monday, the vice president, who has long insisted Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda were allies, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, we would be greeted as liberators in Baghdad, and that the Iraqi insurgency is in its ’’last (…)

  • America’s Covert War in Iraq, by Mike Whitney
    3 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Max Fuller has written the most disturbing and thought provoking article of the year. In his “Crying Wolf: Media Disinformation and Death Squads in Occupied Iraq”, (Global Research) Fuller painstakingly lays out the details and documentation to prove that the United States intelligence agencies are behind the vast incidents of murder and torture being carried out in Iraq today. If Fuller’s thesis is correct, then the War on Terror, that mighty engine of imperial carnage, is nothing more than (…)

  • What If Bush Told the Truth at Annapolis
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    What Bush Might Have Said If He Ever Told the Truth
    Satire by Peter Fredson
    December 2, 2005
    Our courageous American hero, George Bush, Lord of Missions Accomplished, gave another of his cloned speeches the other day at Annapolis, to a captive audience of bright and shining cadets, who had no idea what evil genius awaited their service. Some phrases from his speech were taken from the Neocon Strategy for Victory handbook years ago.
    SCENE: George I is sitting in his bedroom having a (…)

  • Halliburton (KBR) workers in Iraq paid 50 cents an hour
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 (UPI) — While the United States spends billions on troop support in Iraq, the people serving the meals, scooping the ice cream, and washing the dishes make as little as 50 cents an hour.
    The U.S. military has paid Halliburton subsidiary KBR about $12 billion so far for so-called logistics support to U.S. military personnel in Iraq, the largest contract of its kind ever. Around 80,000 troops are served meals at dining facilities every day under the contract — the other (…)

  • Ex-Rep. Findley: “It’s Time to Exit Iraq!”
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by William Hughes
    Washington, D.C. - On Dec. 1, 2005, a public hearing, sponsored by the Council for the National Interest, (CNI), was held on Capitol Hill, in Room SC-4 of the Capitol Building. (1) It dealt primarily with how the U.S. should exit from the immoral and unjust Iraqi War, which was launched based on a pack of lies. (2) The blood stained conflict has already taken the lives of 2,110 American military personnel, over 100,000 Iraqi civilians, and has cost the U.S. taxpayers (…)

  • As many as 60 U.S. Congressmen may be implicated in Bribery scandal
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Abramoff affair: Corruption scandal threatens Republican control of US Congress
    Michael Scanlon, a Republican political operative, publicist and former press spokesman for House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, pled guilty November 21 to conspiring with lobbyist Jack Abramoff to bribe a Republican congressman and cheat several American Indian tribes out of tens of millions of dollars.
    Scanlon’s guilty plea-and even more his agreement to cooperate fully with federal prosecutors and testify (…)

  • What’s Wrong With Intelligent Design as Science?
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    An intensifying battle over intelligent design (ID) to be taught in science classes has been emerging across the United States, alarming scientists and educators who consider ID as a political ploy to repackage religion under the guise of “alternative science” to undermine the scientific theory of evolution. Policymakers in 24 states are weighing proposals to introduce ID in their public school curricula. Whether ID is a religious belief or a scientific theory is at the heart of the (…)

  • CIA: Plame outed to disrupt probe into Bush/Israeli attempt to plant WMD in Iraq
    2 December 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Goss refuses to give Fitzgerald CIA leak damage assessment
    Pentagon’s Wolfowitz and Feith espionage evidence before grand jury
    George Tenet granted partial immunity to testify against White House
    CIA: Plame outed to disrupt probe into Israeli attempt to plant WMD
    Probe of 10+ legislators, high officials tied to drugs and 9-11 finance before jury
    CIA Director Porter Goss is refusing to give special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald a subpoenaed damage assessment report written by former (…)